Application of Big Data in Higher Education for Learning Analytics

Institutions of higher education are facing contemporary challenges. And big data can be used for the higher education practice. Apart from the introduction of the relevance of big data to higher education, analytical approaches such as learning analytics is provided for the analysis and exploitation of big data in higher education. It is helpful for big data to provide insights to support student learning needs. And the potential of learning analytics for quality improvement in learning process is also discussed in detail. Keywords—big data; higher education; learning analytics; teaching; learning process